WordPress/Plugins

The WordPress.org repository has over 30,000 plugins. There are more outside of the official repository. While not all plugins are expressly designed for Indieweb, some can be used regardless with little to no adjustment.

WordPress Plugins are plugins that can help make your site more IndieWeb friendly.

Add the "Webmentions for Comments" plugin to enable webmentions support for threaded comments. (This separate plugin is being integrated into the main Webmention plugin, so take care not to duplicate the functionality by installing versions which may have both.)

alternatives

wp-webmention-again provides an async alternative webmention sender/receiver, using WP Cron for both, but it's yet to see a stable release. It also doesn't do any comment formatting.

Kinds of Posts

WordPress supports several different ways of organizing data. To support different kinds of posts, you can try the Post Kinds Plugin.

The Post Kinds adds a taxonomy to the post type in Wordpress allow for posts to be classified as a reply/like/repost etc. This allows archives to be generated for these kinds of posts as well as support to add the appropriate markup.

This has a more complicated setup and requires creating API keys for the used services, but it's both well documented with step by step instructions and allows for the most control over what is syndicated

POSSE destinations include Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Flickr, Medium, Tumblr, and more than 20 other common social media sites

rel-syndication

If you POSSE, it's good practice to include rel-syndication links on your WordPress posts.

The Syndication Links plugin is designed to support both manual and automatic entry of rel-syndication links. It is extensible to add support for plugins and has support from Tumblr Crosspostr, Diaposter, Medium, and WP-Crosspost, as well as having integrated support courtesy of rel-syndication plugin for SNAP, Bridgy Publish, and Social.

Alternatively, you can try the rel-syndication plugin for that (Currently only supports the Social plugin, the GitHub mainline has minimal support of Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook for NextScripts' SNAP ).

Also, if you are writing status updates that will be duplicated in the content share boxes in your edit post screen, there is some handy code here to autofill those share fields to save copy/pasting them from the content WYSIWYG.

If you also want to go the other direction and pull your social network posts and data back to WordPress, there are PESOS plugins too. To start, try Lifestream.

PESOS Plugins

In case POSSE is not available - for example, due to API limitations like in case of Instagram - there is always the option to pull in your data from other hosts using PESOS

Keyring Social Importers - an impressive importer with auto-import functionality and with an easily extendable setup on top of the Keyring plugin. Currently supporter networks:

Ozh' Tweet Archiver - for Twitter (Separately available on GitHub with scripts .csvJSON for importing more than 3200 Tweets imposed by Twitter API; it also has a custom "Twitter" theme available; for additional support and instructions see these two blogposts: 12

FeedWordPress allows one to use RSS feeds of sites to import content and display it on a WordPress site giving attribution to the original piece of content. Used in this way, it could be considered a "poor man's PESOS."

Integromat appears to be a PESOS service, similar to IFTTT, that can be used with WordPress

IndieAuth

In order to use your own domain name to sign into other websites, you will want to add support for IndieAuth. This requires the appropriate rel-me link(s) appear on your homepage.

Once you have rel-me links set up, head over to indieauth.com and sign in to test that you've set things up appropriately!

Alternatives

If you don't want to add a plugin, you can follow the instructions for adding social media buttons or the documentation for using text widgets. You can also add rel-me links to a custom menu by enabling the Link Relationships under Screen Options on the custom menu page.

The IndieAuth-Links plugin is another option, though as of 2015-12-03 the plugin has not been updated for two years and is only confirmed compatible up to WordPress version 3.7.11.

If you want to support Indieauth for logging into your own site, IndieAuth for Wordpress which allows users to sign in with their domain instead of a username and password.

Backfeed

Even if you're POSSEing or you're adding manual syndication urls ( for example, with Syndication Links plugin ) you probably want to pull comments and likes on the social network posts back to your site. This is called backfeed.

Some of the POSSE plugins have built-in functionality to do this for some networks.

Other options:

Bridgy - another option is Bridgy, a service that automatically sends webmentions for activity on your POSSEd posts inside silos (before starting to use Bridgy, make sure you first install the webmention and semantic-linkbacks plugins described below).

Keyring Reactions Importer - a generic, extendable plugin in early stage, on top of the Keyring plugin. It can auto-imports reactions for every post with syndicated links ( see readme of the plugin ) by polling, based on chained scheduled wp-cron events, so it may become heavy. Currently supported networks: